Trousers-supporter



M. A. PIPER. TROUSERS SUPPORTER. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 3. 1920.

1,362,179. Patented Dec. 14,1920.

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UNHTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARK A. PIPER, 0F MARBLEHEAD, MASSAGHUSETT$-, ASSIGNOR TO FREE & EASY BELT (30., OF MARBLEI-IEAD. MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHU- sears.

TROUSERS-SUPPORTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 14, 1920.

Application filed February 3, 1920. Serial No. 355,918.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARK A. PIPER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Marblehead, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Trousers-Supporters, of which the following is a specilication.

This invention is embodied in a trousers supporter, which includes an ordinary inelastic belt, adapted to be threaded through the usual loops on a trousers waist-band, and also, by means such as a buckle on one end of the belt, and buckle tongue-holes in the opposite end portion of the belt, to be contracted about the wearers waist, and elastic straps attached to the belt at the inner side thereof, and at points between the ends and the mid length of the belt, so that the straps are at diametrically opposite portions of the belt when the supporter is in use, and are in position to bear on the hip portions of the trousers waist-band, said straps normally standing inward from the belt and being adapted to be extended by the contraction of the belt, and thus caused to have a garment-supporting engagement with the hip portions of the waist-band, said straps and the central and end portions of the belt forming a zone which exerts a garment supporting pressure on the hips, and a lighter pressure on the front and back portions of the body, so that the supporter is operative when the belt is relatively loose.

Of the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification;-

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a garment supporter embodying the invention, the belt being open and the elastic straps normally contracted.

Fig. 2 is an edge view, showing the belt closed and contracted, and the straps extended, as when the supporter is in use.

Fig. 3 is a section on line 88 of Fig. 2.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all of the figures.

In the drawings, 12 represents an inelastic trousers belt, which may be of any suitable material, and is formed to be threaded through the usual loops on a trousers waist-band, the belt being provided with means, such as a buckle 13 and buckle tongueholes 14, whereby it may be closed and adjustably contracted to conform to the wearers waist.

Two elastic straps 15, which may be of ordinary elastic webbing, are attached-at their opposite ends to the belt, as by stitches l6, and are elsewhere unattached. The straps when normallycontracted, are shorterthan the portions of the belt between the attached ends of the straps,so that, when the belt is open, the straps stand inward from the belt, as shown by- Fig. 1. The attached ends of the straps are spaced from the ends and from the mid length portion of the belt and their arrangement and length are such that when the belt is closed, the straps are at diametrically opposite sides or portions of the belt, and are adapted to hear only on the hip portions 18 of a waist-band.

The operation of contracting the belt around the waist of the wearer, extends or stretches the straps 15, and causes them to bear yieldingly on the hip portions 18 and press said portions inward over the hip projections of the wearers body.

The straps and the central and end portions of the belt form a zone which exerts a garment-supporting pressure on the hips, and a lighter pressure on the front and back portions of the body, so that the supporter is operative when the belt is relatively loose, or in other words, is looser than it would necessarily be if the elastic straps were not provided. The looseness of the belt is illustrated in Fig. 2, by the crevices shown at 20, between the straps 15 and the corresponding portions of the belt, these crevices being the result of the effort of the straps to contract to their normal length.

It will be seen that when the supporter is in use, it presents the appearance of an ordinary continuous trousers belt, the straps 15 being practically covered and concealed by the belt 12.

It will be seen by reference to Fig. 3, that the straps 15 conform to the contour of ortions of the hips, and press the hip portions 18 of the waist-band inwardly over the projecting hip portions 22 of the body below the belt. It will also be seen that the portions of the belt between the attached ends of the straps 15, may be left loose, so that when the belt is adjusted to the satisfaction of the wearer, the said belt portions may exert practically no pressure on the hips, and serve only to practically conceal the straps, the exposed portion of the fastener being a continuous belt of ordinary continued use.

I claim:

A trousers supporter comprising an inelastic belt provided with means for adjustabl'y connecting .its end portions and thus causing the belt to entirely surround a waistband, and elastic straps attached at their opposite ends to the belt between the ends and mid length of the latter, the length and location of the straps being such that when the ends of the belt are connected, and the belt is in use, the straps are practically coextensive with the hip portions of the waistband, the mid length portions of the straps exerting inward pressure on the central hip portions of the waist-band, whereby, when the belt is loose, the straps stand inwardly from the hip portions of the belt, and bear yieldingly on the hip portions. of the waistband, so that the inelastic hipportions of the belt exert no pressure on the hip portions of the waist-band.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature.

' MARK A. PIPER. 

